He Didn't Stab Cleveland in the Back

Cleveland Cavaliers fans will tell you that LeBron James stabbed them in the back when he left the team in questionable fashion.

James carried the team on his back for seven seasons and received no help in his quest to bring a title to Cleveland.

Between 1994 and 2005, the team did not make it past the first round of the playoffs and they didn't even qualify for the playoffs between '99 and '05.

Once James got going, he led the Cavs to the playoffs five times in a row, including five Eastern Conference semifinals appearances, two Eastern Conference finals appearances and one showing in the NBA Finals.

After James left town the Cavs went back to their old ways of being underachievers and not qualifying for the playoffs. He was the team.

Cleveland fans are still angry about the championship honors that James promised when he was a kid straight out of high school, but James is just one man and cannot beat five guys by himself.

If I had a nickel for every promise fulfilled by a child coming out of high school, I might end up with a penny.

The best the Cavs did to help out James was signing an aging, ineffective Shaquille O'Neal in 2009.

LeBron haters need to realize that he did what was best for his career. He was not content to sit in a dead-end job, just as no one else is willing to do when better options present themselves.

James had more dedication to the Cavs than any other player during his tenure there, but sometimes it's just time to move on.

The couple have two children together, and quite honestly, Brinson looks like she has had two children (not criticism, just a biological fact).

James could take the route of most sports superstars and marry some random, foreign super model while paying child support, but he has chosen to marry the mother of his two children and to raise them properly.

Now that is a real man. That is a loyal man.

James might have only one NBA ring, but he's about to have only one ring on his other hand, and that will be all he needs.

If you want to criticize LeBron for his "loyalties," I challenge you to be the same man that he is first.